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Ciril Tiny House: Feline-friendly Tiny House Lets Owners Live and Work Off the Grid
Brief The charmingly named Cyril the Tiny House is Build Tiny's latest towable dwelling, providing a home office and a few feline-friendly additions. It also runs fully off the grid with a solar panel and battery setup. Insight Charmingly named Cyril the Tiny...
IKEA Collaborates with Escape to Design Custom Off-grid Tiny House
Brief Ikea has joined forces with tiny house firm Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels. Appropriately named the Ikea Tiny Home Project, the 187-sq-ft model is filled with Ikea products and can run off-the-grid thanks to roof-based solar panels. Insight...
Amazing Fastest Wooden House Construction Method – Modern House Construction Technology
Controlled Demolition Methods : 4 Building Demolition Methods
Buildings can become unsafe over time. Unsafe buildings can collapse -- to prevent this, experts make sure these buildings collapse in a controlled manner, which is called controlled demolition. The controlled demolition of a building is an engineering art form. In...
Out-of-this-world Tiny House : You Won’t Believe This Amazing Tiny House & Parking Spot
In this weeks episode we travel to the winterless North of New Zealand to visit an inspiring couple who have built an out-of-this-world tiny house with a parking spot that you won't believe! There's a saying in the tiny house world that home is where you park it, and...
Extreme Engineering Challenge: The Battle to Build the Transamerica Pyramid
Unwelcome when it was first proposed, San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid has overcome public opinion, economics and the extreme challenges of its location to become one of the world's most famous buildings.
Review of Residual Properties of Concrete under Freezing-and-Thawing Loading
Author(s) Yusheng Zeng, Ser Tong Quek, Aiping Tang, and Xianyu Zhou Abstract Freezing-and-thawing (F-T) resistance is a key parameter in evaluating the durability of concrete. The response of concrete under F-T environment varies depending on the mixture...
Increase in Coating Thickness of Epoxy-Coated Steel Reinforcing Bars for Concrete Deck Replacement
Author(s) Rachel E. Henkhaus, Sandra Villamizar, and Julio A. Ramirez Abstract The allowable range of epoxy coating thickness specified by ASTM A775/A775M is 175 to 400 μm (7 to 16 mils). This study investigates the impact on structural performance of...
Effects of Polycarboxylate-Modified Fly Ash on Fluidity and Strength of Concrete
Author(s) Peng Liu, Min Qu, Fazhou Wang, Guohua Hu, and Chuanlin Hu Abstract It is well known that the workability of concrete will decrease when doped with secondary fly ash (FA). The authors reported a new FA composite with surface modification which can...